Kong and Datadog Announce Integration

Mashape is excited to announce our partnership with Datadog. Through an integration with Kong, the most widely used open-source API management platform, Datadog is now available to everyone in our community. Kong features a plugin-oriented architecture which allows you to set up authentication, transformations, security, and manage traffic controls.

With the Datadog plugin you can log API metrics like request count, request size, response status and latency to the local Datadog Agent. Additionally, Datadog’s Agent has been updated to collect Kong’s connection and database details.

Kong Plugin Configuration

Configuring the plugin is straightforward, you can add it on top of an API (or Consumer) by executing the following request on your Kong server:

Metrics

The Datadog plugin currently logs the following metrics to the StatsD server, which are then sent to Datadog.